The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-09-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

~N~ h'AN NtuHAthHs
PRoH, GoopK has taken charge az the U.
4. Fish Commission.
oRKEg two-cont stamp will soon re.
place the "barn-rcdn one.
THK oftener baseball players strike tho
better the managers are pleased.
TnE highest denomination OF United
States legal-tender notes 10 $4,000,
r DayESfoBr IA the onion market OF Iowa.
Garlic also grows inxnriaHtiy thorc.
A NEW bridge across the Tibcr ut Rome
10 10 be named In honor OF Garibaldi.
A GOLDEN street lamp, with y diamond
light, makes an attractive scarf-pin.
CREMATION OF the dead will be Ia prac-
tice In ST Louis within few months.
Bit Mrs hyo columns week Ia the
New York Horid arc supposed 70 net him
$50.
CnicAoo Is vaccnating her children
free Of ehasge at the rooms OF the board
OF health.
fnoN March 4, 1855. TO August /, 1857,
there have been is0 new national banks
organized.
ADKApwooD judge ordered jury fcd
on bread and water until verdict could
bo agreed on.
Tnr head Of the Blitan's haiem 10 now a
Christian woman, beautiful, cultivated.
and Spanlard.
Axnw Kansas paper has been named
the "hassoeger," which Is Interpreted 10
mean boomer.
MiSsioSlniEs have In the last eight
years, formed and reduced TO writing over
forty languages
BkEs have farcd badly This summer,
bclnF unable 10 make honey because OF
scarcity OF pasture.
Tnn irsi Polish newspaper ever printed
inAmcrica has been started Ia Buffalo. ],
- called TAs 0.kgnia.
G.P- wRIcnT, Of baltimore, has been tho
father Of twcnty.right children, twenty.
three Of whom arc living
A USioxyillp (N. W thief ono nigh,
recently, dug Gfty hills Of potatoes and
then set out the tops again.
"SsarPfKnU iRRi.og, the famous Jockey,
has been engaged for the season Of 1855 by
J. D. Haggin, of California, At salary Of
$4,000.
TnE Grand Army Of the Republic post at
Los Angeles, CaL, Is 10 take four carloads
ofgrares 10 ~ Louis with u 10 give away
70 visitors.
Ak Albany man won't around the city
borrowing aprons under tho plea that his
wifo wanted them for patterns. lie Is
locked up now.
ilrHakN RrucKru, Of Heading, Pa, has
refused an offer Of $4,000 for his collection
ufbutterfics: said 10 be the largest and
most varied IN existence
Tar Canadian big thieves and dcInuItcrs
are coming TO America for asylum. Can't
the two governments inaugnralc a scheme
for "cxchanRing prlsonersn
NioLrNr rain and hail-siorms have pre-
vailed In the northern part OF England
and In Scotland. In many sections entirely
destroying the standing crops.
Az English gifi says that she has seen
men whom she might have consented TO
marry, but she has never met one whom
she would desire TO propose 10.
TuE Toronto Giobe says that the other
day u calf belonging 10 Mrs. Joseph L.
Garrett, Of West Fallowneld, nte nineteen
young turkeys aud wanted more.
TnF Chinese Government viii send rep.
rrscntatiycs TO this conntry 10 mako n
thorough study OF the American system OF
banking, coinage aud postal affairs.
a LITTLK girl was found by her mother
hanging 10 window sin twenty feet from
the ground In a state Of somnambulism NJ
Wakeeney, Kas., ono night recently.
Tnr mayorof New York refused 10 allow
tho Italian nAg 20 be raised on the city hall
and says that white he is mayor no flag
shall over be sccn there but tho American.
EnwAnD DowsE, who claims TO be son
OF ex-Congrcssman Bovine, of New York,
has broken leg and no money He boasts
cfheving spent tsoo,OoO for hquor in eight
years
Mn. JonS HUMAN, Of New Jersey, Is
eaid 70 bel man of sombcr and melan.
choly disposition. Az any rate he has ap.
piled 10 tho Legislature for change Of
surname.
BuYrALo has woman contractor. Her
namo is Mrs. A, NJ. Holloway aad sho has
Just secured the contract for cleaning the
streets OF that city for fiyo years by a bid
OF si47,0O0
A snARrErEp traveller reports that
within year the Mormon women have
generally discarded thcir plain garb and
now appear as gayly aitired as their
Gentilc sisters.
TnE lifting OF boys aud girls for work
by which they can earn an honest support
in after years is one not second in import
anco to any that can be dono Ia tho school
room or elsewhere.
rnE Vermont State Superintendent OF
Education, In his statistics for the past
year, gives II, ,40s as the number of schol-
ars enrolled, while tho average daily at
tendance was but 45,sOj.
Rich men have way of losing money
like other people. Mackay, the California
millionaire, Is said to have lost six million
by tho wheat deal, and he had tito lose.
The fnrmers got much oft.
TUE vcloclpcdo is now universally used
byoideries on foot service in Alsace.Lor-
ruinc.N Az Strasburg one OF the military
sights is tho practice Of the riders. Tho
tricycle. Is deemed preferable TO the BIZ
cycle
CLARK SMITH, OF Fort Supply, and Miss
Gussie Mason, Of Fort sill, two hundred
mites apart wero married by telegraph.
The report says that "evcry thing went
lovely, aud full ceremony was given by
means OF lightning"
Miss FI.oRA BENJAMIN, OF Cincinnati IL
tho latest musical wonder. She can play
almost any instrument, and Is especially
proficient on the piano, flute ana violin.
She never took lesson In music.
THE Journal Of Education says the follow.
ing is tho longest correct sentence Of
'thatsn which II has yot seen; ~ as
sert that that that that 'tnat, that that
that that person told me contained, Inn
piled, has bccn misunderstood.i' Tho SEN
tenco Is grammatically correct
A MAN was soen lately in London to
shake a prettily dressed child, who
screamed most pitcously. Finally he threw
1t 10 the pavement and stamped upon IL,
for which he was knocked down by an
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